ENG 365 - Images of the American City

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Wellesley College

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Cuba and Brogan (English) This course considers how literary representations and sociological studies of urban life variously respond to the astonishing growth of cities in the twentieth century, helping to shape newly emergent and highly contested cultural meanings of the city. In considering the in-terplay between mind and urban forms, we'll explore the relationship between the individual and the urban environment, how life in cities is socially organized, patterns of immigration and tensions between ethnic groups, the creation of the slum and ghetto and efforts to gentrify them, cognitive mapping, and the legibility of the cityscape. We'll also discuss how literary and sociological perspectives on the city meet and diverge. Authors may include Stephen Crane, Georg Simmel, Robert Park, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Anselm Strauss, Paule Mar-shall, Kevin Lynch, Anna Deavere Smith, and Elijah Anderson . Students may register for either SOC 365 or ENG 365 and credit will be granted accordingly. Prerequisite: One 200-level course in either literature or sociology or by permission of the instructor to other qualified students. Distribution: Social and Behavioral Analysis or Language and Literature Semester: Fall Unit: 1.0

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.wellesley.edu

Phone Number:

(781) 283-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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